Community of Wicca
The coven — or the path alone.
Traditionally thirteen at most, initiating in degrees; since the 1970s, as many Wiccans practice solo with a self-dedication as ever joined a coven.
How you joinInitiation into a coven, or self-dedication for solitaries
Who leadsHigh priestess and high priest — or no one, alone
The unitThe coven of a dozen or fewer; the solitary practitioner
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Wicca began as a coven-and-initiation religion — Gardnerian and Alexandrian lines with three degrees, oath-bound material, and initiation only by an already-initiated priest or priestess of the opposite sex. Then Scott Cunningham and others published books arguing you could self-dedicate and practice alone, and the solitary path became the majority. The relationship between lineaged traditions and eclectic solitaries remains the community's main internal fault line.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Satsang — the singing evening.
Hinduism · rite
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The fourfold sangha.
Buddhism
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Micchami dukkadam.
Jainism · rite
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Argument, for the sake of heaven, is sacred.
Judaism · core tenet
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The church is the body of Christ.
Christianity · core tenet
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Jumu'ah — the Friday assembly.
Islam · rite
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